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Daily Archives: October 1, 2015

In case you missed it, this blogger’s colleague, Isaac Rutenberg recently penned a newspaper piece titled: “Let’s respect the copyright of our artistes to build creative industry and make jobs”. This blogpost offers another perspective on the central topic of building respect for intellectual property (IP) rights from a different perspective namely, IP enforcement.

With regard to Rutenberg’s article, this blogger admires Vogue’s fancy footwork in avoiding any copyright issues with Disney in the Lupita Nyong’o interview by cleverly muting Lupita’s recorded performance of the Disney song and replacing it with a subtitle. (Aside: one wonders how Rutenberg ever ended up watching Lupita’s interview by Vogue ;-)) Speaking of YouTube, this blogger has always wondered why some YouTube accounts deliberately upload other people’s music videos and other content then post a comment stating: “No Copyright Infringement Intended” – a contradictory and misleading statement to post since such videos are automatically subject to take-down by YouTube for copyright infringement.